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CRATAIGUS APIIFOLIA. 
Parsley Haw. 
Leaves orbicular to broadly ovate, pinnately 5 to 7-cleft. 
Crateegus apiifolia, Michaux, #7. Bor-Am. i. 287.—Per- Crategus Oxyacantha?, Walter, Fl. Car. 147 (not Lin- 
soon, Syn. ii. 38. —Du Mont de Courset, Bot. Cult. ed. nus). 
2, v. 454.— Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i. 336.— Nuttall, Mespilus apiifolia, Marshall, Ardust. Am. 89.— Poiret, 
Gen. i. 305. — Elliott, Sh. i. 552. — De Candolle, Prodr. Lam. Dict. Suppl. iv. 68.— Sprengel, Syst. ii. 508. — 
ii. 627. — Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 599. — Audubon, Birds, t. Spach, Hist. Vég. ii. 67. — Wenzig, Linnea, xxxviii. 152. 
192.— Torrey & Gray, FH. N. Am. i. 467.— Dietrich, Crateegus Oxyacantha, var. Americana, Castiglioni, 
Syn. iii. 160.— Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. iii. 121. — Viag. negli Stati Uniti, ii. 292. 
Chapman, #7. 127.— Kaleniczenko, Bull. Mosc. xlviii. Crateegus apiifolia minor, Loudon, Ard. Brit. ii. 825. 
pt. ii. 29. — Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census Crateegus Oxyacantha, var. apiifolia, Regel, Act. Hort. 
U. S. ix. 81. — Watson & Coulter, Gray’s Man. ed. 6, 165. Petrop. i. 119 (in part). 
A tree, rarely attaining the height of twenty feet, with a slender often inclining trunk three or 
four inches in diameter, and branches which spread nearly at right angles and form a wide irregular 
open head; or more often a low shrub with many more or less contorted stems rising from the ground. 
The bark of the trunk is from one sixteenth to one eighth of an inch in thickness, smooth, and light 
gray tinged with red. The branchlets, which when they first appear are covered with long pale hairs, 
are slender, often zigzag and contorted, and are usually armed with stout straight chestnut-brown spines 
an inch to an inch and a half in length; in their first winter they are light red or pale orange-brown, 
marked with minute lenticels, and usually puberulous, but ultimately become light brown or ashy gray. 
The winter-buds are acute, one sixteenth of an inch long, and covered by lustrous chestnut-brown ovate 
scales apiculate at the apex and scarious on the margins. The leaves are broadly ovate to orbicular, 
acute at the apex, truncate, slightly cordate or wedge-shaped at the base, and pinnately five to seven- 
cleft with shallow acute or deep broad sinuses, and incisely lobed segments serrate towards the apex 
with spreading glandular-tipped teeth ; when they unfold they are pilose on the upper surface with 
long pale hairs, and usually glabrous below, and at maturity are thin and membranaceous, bright green 
and rather lustrous above and paler below, glabrous or pilose on the lower surface along the prominent 
midribs and primary veins, or occasionally covered with pubescence on both surfaces, and are two thirds 
of an inch to an inch and a half broad, and borne on slender pubescent or ultimately glabrous petioles 
an inch to an inch and a half in length. The stipules are linear, acute, a quarter of an inch long, and 
eaducous, or on vigorous shoots are foliaceous, lunate, coarsely glandular-serrate, short-stalked, and 
sometimes half an inch in length. The flowers, which appear late in March or early in April when the 
leaves are fully grown, are half an inch across and are produced on long slender pedicels in few-flow- 
ered villose-pubescent somewhat simple corymbs with minute lanceolate acute colored caducous bracts 
and bractlets; the calyx-tube is narrowly obconie and glabrous or villose-pubescent, with lanceolate 
acute usually glandular-serrate lobes, often tinged with red towards the apex, reflexed after anthesis, 
and deciduous or sometimes persistent. The fruit, which ripens in October and remains on the branches 
until the beginning of winter, is oblong, from a quarter to a third of an inch in length, and bright 
searlet, with a minute cavity surrounded by the remnants of the calyx, thin flesh, and one to three thick- 
walled rugose nutlets barely grooved on the back. 
Crategus aptifolia is distributed through the coast region of the southern Atlantic states from 
southern Virginia to central Florida, and ranges westward through the Gulf region to southern Arkan- 
